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This paper presents energy harvesting improvements utilizing electrically small resonators. A single bow-tie antenna and a split ring resonator (SRR) working at the same frequency of 5.8 GHz are designed. The bow-tie antenna achieves about 12 % power efficiency, whereas the SRR achieves more than 37 %. A new efficiency term is also proposed to take into account the footprint reduction and efficiency advancement resulting from SRR elements. Two arrays of SRRs and bow-tie antennas are designed to occupy identical footprints. Microwave power harvesting efficiency of 60 and 15.2 % for the SRRs and bow-tie arrays, respectively, are achieved.
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The authors would like to thank King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for supporting this work.
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AlShareef, M.R., Ramahi, O. (2014). Energy Harvesting in the Microwaves Spectrum Using Electrically Small Resonators. In: Oral, A., Bahsi, Z., Ozer, M. (eds) International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2013). Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 155. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05521-3_34
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